They do not have a majority on the council: the latest composition, following a by-election gain for the Conservatives in Rumworth last year, is 25 Conservative councillors, 19 Labour, 5 Lib Dems and 11 independents and localists. The council now stands at 15 Lib Dems, 13 Conservatives, 9 seats for the Tunbridge Wells Alliance, 7 Labour and 4 independents; the Lib Dems, Tunbridge Wells Alliance and Labour have a coalition administration, and the Conservatives will need to do far better than last year to have a hope of changing that. This page is not available in other languages. Let's quickly move on to the question. Of the seats in the map above, Launton and Otmoor ward went to the Lib Dems in a by-election last year; a repeat of 2022 would also see the Conservatives lose Adderbury/Bloxham/Bodicote to the Lib Dems and Banbury Hardwick to Labour. At parliamentary level Bedford town forms a marginal Labour constituency while the countryside around it is in the safe Conservative seat of North East Bedfordshire; however, the mayoralty doesnt reflect this. Bennett was re-elected to the county council in 2021 with 54% of the vote, and a close four-way race for second place was won by independent candidate Norman Mockford on 13% ahead of the Lib Dems on 12%. The Labour majorities in the metropolitan boroughs I havent mentioned so far Rochdale, Tameside, Manchester, Trafford, Salford, Wigan, Knowsley and Sefton are impregnable. Its a safe Conservative seat which had been represented since 2009 by the late Phil Awford, who had also previously sat on Tewkesbury council. That might look like a large lead, but Swindon is very much in play this year: Labour performed well here in the 2022 elections, winning 12 out of 19 wards, and they are only defending seven seats this year. This year the Conservatives are defending all of the six wards they won last May plus Hagley ward in Rugeley, which didnt poll last year. In 2007, Teale was received the prestigious Royal Television Society Award (Nations and Regions) Sports Presenter of the Year. He has earned an estimated networth of $500k approximately as of 2022. A repeat of last year would suggest that the Conservatives might well hold this council; in 2022 the Lib Dems won North ward where they messed up their nomination in 2019, but this would be cancelled out by a Conservative gain in Coxheath and Hunton ward. The Labour candidate is Saqhib Ali, an entrepreneur in the financial services industry who also sits on a number of NHS trusts; he was Labours parliamentary candidate for North East Bedfordshire in 2015. This unexpectedly ended up hung at its first elections in 2019, largely thanks to a protest vote for independent candidates in Christchurch: the 2019 elections returned 36 Conservative councillors (mostly from Bournemouth), 15 Lib Dems (mostly from Poole), 11 independents (mostly from Christchurch), 7 Poole People, 3 Labour, 2 Greens, 1 UKIP and 1 Alliance for Local Living councillor. Well, Sara is currently 49 years of age as of 2019. 10. This has a large Conservative majority which is not under threat 30 Conservative councillors against 8 Labour, 3 Lib Dems and an independent. The latter are the remnants of what used to be a large UKIP group here. Neighbouring Stevenage has a secure Labour majority. The Tory group has comprehensively split and has also lost a number of by-elections, and control of the council has seesawed between a succession of unstable coalitions. Since 2005 Graham Newman had been one of the towns two county councillors, and he had served as chair of the county council in 202022 and also as mayor of Felixstowe. The winner of the mayoral election may not necessarily have control of the council: in 2019 the Mansfield Independents gained the council majority from Labour while the mayoralty went the other way. See if you can spot them below. High Peak council is based on towns like Glossop, New Mills and Buxton which are within the economic and cultural orbit of Manchester but are part of Derbyshire rather than Cheshire or Lancashire. There is a team behind the scenes who will, as usual, be working their socks off to bring you cold hard ward-by-ward results as they come in from the counts on Thursday night and all through Friday. This is in the Eagle and Hykeham West division, which covers part of the town of North Hykeham together with a number of villages to the west of Lincoln, the largest of which is Skellingthorpe. Favourite name for boy / girl: Well I have to go for Millie and Jamie! I started dreaming of becoming a journalist when I was 12. In Shropshire this year there are elections only for Telford and Wrekin council, which has new ward boundaries the map above is for the old wards. On 5 February 1996, the show introduced a double-anchored presentation with Quentin Rayner and Kathy Rochford. A repeat of 2022 would see seats fly in all directions (including a gain for the continuing SDP in Middleton Park ward) but the net change would be an increase to 57 Labour councillors. Initially a Conservative minority administration was formed; this was then deposed and replaced by a Labour minority administration, which itself fell in 2021 after the Conservatives made by-election gains and formed another minority administration. The Lib Dems have since lost a by-election to the Conservatives, two of their other councillors have gone independent and the remaining Tory seats look fairly safe, so this could be a tougher ask for the Liberal Democrats than the seat count might suggest. There is a fantastic amount of behind-the-scenes work thats needed to put this show on for your benefit: polling day is just the tip of the administrative iceberg, representing the culmination of months of planning. This beautiful lady seems to be workaholic and concentrating only on her profession instead of finding a perfect partner. He is going for a fourth term. 5. We might need to wait some time for this result to settle down, because the poll in Frimley Green ward has been postponed after one of the Conservative candidates died; Andrews Previews will be back here to throw some darts at a later date. Read about our approach to external linking. Given that last year Labour won 12 Southampton wards out of a possible 16, we should probably expect a large increase in the Labour majority here. This column sends its best wishes to everybody working on this election for a smooth and trouble-free poll and count. ", Then, as a comment is made, she can be seen pointing ahead and saying: "Yeah, like that.". Most other Nottinghamshire councils have large majorities: for the Conservatives in Newark and Sherwood district and in Rushcliffe, for Labour in Nottingham and Gedling and for the Ashfield Independents in Ashfield. Its a big deal. The Tories are defending seven seats this year, so a repeat of that performance would cost them three seats and it would be No Overall Control time. Anyway, no overall control is the norm here, not the exception. Sarah Teale got married happily to Matt Teale, a Newsreader, and journalist. Get 5 free searches. Four years on the Brexit Partys successors, Reform UK, are a minor player in these local elections with just 470 candidates a figure which includes joint tickets with localist parties in Derby and Bolton. Those who would forecast large Conservative losses at these local elections would probably do well to bear in mind that in 2019 the Tories had already lost more than 100 council seats in Surrey, 60 of them in Waverley and Guildford districts alone. West Oxfordshire went hung last year; there are now 19 Conservative councillors, 15 Lib Dems, 9 Labour, 3 independents and 2 Greens and a vacant Conservative seat in Ducklington ward, where a by-election will be held as part of this cycle. She has been a presenter for BBC East Midlands Today and a news correspondent for Central Television. An independent-Lib Dem coalition is running the show. The small town of Swaffham lies at a major crossroads in western Norfolk, with main roads going east to Norwich, south to Thetford, west to Kings Lynn and north to Cromer. The Tories are now down to 21 seats out of 41 plus that vacancy. This district is based on Leyland and Preston suburbs to the south of the Ribble, including Penwortham (which is the Lib Dem area) and Bamber Bridge. On paper by-election results here have been very positive for the Conservatives; in practice their group has split and there are only six Tory councillors left. In terms of celebrity candidates, former Conservative councillor David Van Day is not standing again after narrowly losing his seat on the council last year; but student journalist and GB News contributor Sophie Corcoran has been selected as the Conservative candidate for the safe-Labour ward of Chadwell St Mary. This year the Conservatives are defending the two ex-Yorkshire West Craven wards, which both voted Lib Dem last year, plus Marsden and Southfield ward in Nelson which voted Labour last year. Elmbridge council is currently hung with a coalition of 20 Residents councillors and 13 Lib Dems opposed by 15 Conservatives. The most marginal council in West Yorkshire is Kirklees, which covers Huddersfield and Dewsbury along with a large number of smaller towns and villages. Our final English region this year is also the busiest in terms of the number of councils up. Continue reading about Matt Teales salary and income in the next section. She has been a presenter for BBC East Midlands Today and a news correspondent for Central Television. Sarah Teale Production Manager at Page & Bloom London, England, United Kingdom 199 followers 197 connections Join to view profile Page & Bloom The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Report. This is a marginal county division which is often closely fought between the Lib Dems and Conservatives; the Lib Dems gained it at the 2021 county elections with 37% of the vote, against 31% for the Conservatives and 23% for an independent candidate. Southampton has a small Labour majority at present with 26 councillors against 20 Conservatives, 1 Lib Dem and 1 ex-Labour independent; that takes into account a Labour gain at a by-election in Bitterne ward last December. In 2019 the Conservatives won 19 seats against 9 Greens, 8 Lib Dems, 3 Labour and 2 independents; the Tories briefly formed a minority administration before all the other groups were able to thrash out a coalition agreement, under a Lib Dem leader. This is Chester-le-Streets most middle-class ward and is one of the strongest Conservative wards in the Durham council area: in 2017, when just five of Durhams wards voted Conservative, Chester-le-Street East was one of them. With the north dealt with its time to head into the Midlands, although well start with a council which probably should be part of the North West region. In 2021 the Conservatives increased their majority by gaining two by-elections, from Labour in Claydon ward and from an independent in Ormesby ward. No Overall Control might be a recent development for Rochford, but the neighbouring city of Southend-on-Sea has had that status for quite some time now; and the Tories squandered a good opportunity to change that last year. Of the four Lincolnshire councils with Conservative majorities at present, the most marginal is East Lindsey council (above) which is one of those rural councils which traditionally has lots of independents: in 2019 there were 29 Conservatives, 12 independents, 7 Labour, 6 Skegness localists and a Lib Dem. She ditched everyone else's way of doing things and embraced deep inner work to connect with her unique way of leading. This division name does pretty much what it says on the tin, taking in the eastern quarter of the town: it is overlooked by Lumley Castle on the far side of the River Wear. Beart had also been a Swale councillor since 2015, representing Queenborough and Halfway ward until his death in January at the shockingly early age of 31. There are new ward boundaries here which makes it difficult to identify target wards. Further down the Kent coast we come to Folkestone and Hythe council, which was left in a delicate balance by the 2019 elections: on the right were 13 Conservatives and 2 UKIP councillors, on the left 6 Greens, 6 Labour and 2 Lib Dems. Mayor Dave Hodgson is seeking a fourth full term for the Liberal Democrats. Episode dated 15 August 2013: With Anne Davies, Kaye Forster, Dominic Heale, Sarah Teale. Two Conservative councillors are now independent, which wipes out a by-election gain the party made in Loxwood ward from the Lib Dems. In Oldham, Labour have been going backwards in recent years and have a lot of work to do to secure their majority. Police pursuit ends when stolen car crashes into wall in Kirkby, Vaping products stolen in violent robbery at Mansfield shop, Trauma packs introduced for firefighters after arena bombing inquiry, Nottingham murder: Six more arrests in Davices Anderson stabbing investigation, Celebrating our communities at the county show, Latest Met Office forecast for Nottinghamshire on Bank Holiday Monday, Russia launches pre-dawn missile attack on Ukraine, Chaos at port as thousands rush to leave Sudan. One-third of the council is up for election in Bury, Manchester, Rochdale and Salford as usual, but new boundaries are being introduced this year in Trafford, Stockport, Tameside, Oldham, Wigan and the Greatest Town in the Known Universe. It was a bit of a culture shock I can tell you! The Honiton half of that seat is covered by the East Devon district, where independents won half of the seats in 2019: 30, against 20 Conservatives, 8 Lib Dems and 2 Greens. The defeat of Dennis Skinner in Bolsover was presaged by Labour losing control of Bolsover council in May 2019: however, they didnt do quite as badly as the map above indicates, as the seat count ended up with 18 Labour, 16 independents, 2 Conservatives and a Lib Dem. Video, The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure, MasterChef Australia host Jock Zonfrillo dies, Banana artwork in Seoul museum eaten by visitor, Trevelyan relative 'would consider' famine payment, NFL player's daughter, aged two, drowns in pool, Four dead after suspected pigeon racer dispute, Ding becomes China's first male world chess champion, Indian 'killer' elephant relocated to tiger reserve. Pretty much as it says, this is the southern half of Walton-on-Thames stretching south from the town centre to the railway station on the South Western main line; the division also stretches west to take in the Oatlands Park area. Instead of moving TO the capital, it actually meant moving away from London to a tiny place called Ely in Cambridgeshire. Register for your account and get started with our industry leading people contacts search engine. To avoid this, the Northern Irish local elections have been put back by two weeks, and they will now take place on Thursday 18th May. Last year the Liberal Democrats gained overall control of the city of Kingston upon Hull from Labour, and their lead over Labour on the council is 2927. However, in this case the Conservative splinter group has installed a Labour minority administration. This is a marginal county division which voted Labour in 2005, Conservative in 2009, and split its two seats between Labour and UKIP in 2013. All of these have Labour majorities except for the city of Sheffield, which is hung: the latest composition in the home of snooker has 38 reds, 29 yellows, 14 Greens, 1 blue and a cue-ball or independent councillor, who was elected as Labour. He has not mentioned publicly any information regarding his parents and siblings. Many are in search of Is Sarah Teale Married? South Ribble council is also run by a Labour minority, with 23 Labour councillors, 21 Conservatives, 5 Lib Dems and one vacant seat. After studying for a degree in Broadcast Journalism at Nottingham Trent University, Teale began his career at . Another councillor who has stepped down from Cambridgeshire county council halfway through their first term is Hilary Cox Condron, an artist and Labour councillor. Matt Teale was born on 7 March 1975 in Worcestershire, United Kingdom. There are also ward boundary changes in the only Greater Manchester borough which has never had a Labour majority. In the county council by-election he is opposed by Labours Munazza Faiz, who was a distant runner-up here two years ago, and by the Lib Dems Adrian Tansom. Local elections are local, and this column is here to describe the local scene. Sarah Teale was filming outside a conference on the subject in Nottingham when a man directed a sexual comment towards her. Fenland is one of those councils which can have a lot of unopposed returns, but not this time: for the 2023 local elections, every ward here will be contested. Worcester has few marginal wards, but a repeat of 2022 would see the Conservatives lose two seats: the city-centre Cathedral ward to Labour, and the peripheral St Peters Parish to the Green Party. Ed Coleman has represented the town on the county council since 2017, when he gained his seat from UKIP; he was re-elected for a second term in 2021 with a 6917 lead over Labour. The programme can be watched in any part of the UK (and Europe) from Astra 1N on Freesat channel 952 and Sky channel 960. This is the only Gloucestershire county division to span the River Severn, taking in 20 rural parishes between Gloucester to the south, Cheltenham to the east and Tewkesbury to the north. Yes, Teale is happily married to his wife, Sarah Teale, a presenter for BBC Midlands Today. Your vote will be free, it will be fair, it will be secret, and it will count in the same way as my vote and everybody elses vote. Its the first Thursday in May 2023, and that means its time for what will probably be the biggest electoral event of the year: the local elections in England. The 2019 Thanet elections resulted in a hung council with 25 Conservatives, 20 Labour, 7 Thanet Independents (the main remnant of the UKIP group which won a majority here in 2015 before shattering in all directions), 3 Greens and an independent. It is an old saying that knowledge means power; the better informed you are, the greater your chances of success. Going forward there will only be two East Midlands councils which use the thirds electoral system. Sara Blizzard was born on 17th August 1970 as Sara Louise Blizzard in Coventry, Warwickshire, England. In 2019 this returned 27 Conservative councillors against 19 Labour and 1 Lib Dem. But Britain Elects isnt just Ben. When the realisation dawned that. Best TV Show Ever: West Wing has been a big hit. This will be the last thirds election in Worcester, which will transfer to whole-council elections next year. Neighbouring Buckinghamshire council uses the county council election cycle, and it will next poll in 2025. Further, there are no details about her family background and siblings. Also standing are Warren Weertman for Labour, Stephen Ringham for the Greens and Nicholas Wood for UKIP. Which might be embarrassing for the local MP thats Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. To Know More About Celebrities, Visit MarriedCeleb. Many are in search of Is Sarah Teale Married? The whole council was up for election in 2021 on new ward boundaries, and that election produced a curiously skewed set of retiring councillors: this year five of the independents/localists are up for re-election, against four Conservatives and just three Labour. The administration over the last four years has been equally messy: it started as Independent and Lib Dem, then became Independent and Conservative, and now the independent councillors appear to be trying to rule alone. The 2022 ward map was even worse for the local Conservatives, who won just two wards in the district last year thats one fewer than Labour. May 2019 was a time when political discourse was consumed by the single issue of Brexit: the UKs withdrawal from the European Union had been postponed twice by that point. There are currently 25 Labour councillors, 5 Conservatives, 5 Greens, 2 Lib Dems and 2 independents; a repeat of last years results would see Labour gain Topsham ward from the Conservatives. While Labour might want to make inroads on the large Conservative majority in the former coalfields of North Warwickshire for old times sake, Ill focus here on Rugby where a small Conservative majority is at risk. In addition, Matt as well works as a freelancer for the British Forces Broadcasting Service and Sky News. Western Hertfordshire has been a happy hunting ground for the Lib Dems in recent years. The reduction in voter choice results from the electoral system for elected mayors being changed to first-past-the-post, a change which wasnt in the original bill for the Elections Act and was introduced by a government amendment at committee stage in the Commons. It will be much more satisfying for all of us if you send me a smug message afterwards than a whinging message now and youll give me material for future columns. Goodness knows what will happen here. Teale made a debut as a relief presenter on 25 August 2009 and as a main co-presenter on September 7, 2009. I've had a fantastic time here and no two days are the same. Those two parties have been in an electoral pact for some years now and the coalition here should continue without fuss. In 2019 the Conservatives won a majority of one here: 28 seats against 15 independents, 10 Labour, 1 Green and 1 Lib Dem. Most of these were last contested four years and a lifetime ago. East Midlands Today is the BBC's regional television news programme for the East Midlands. Not all the changes made by the Elections Act 2022 were retrograde steps. Sarah Teale Senior Broadcast Journalist/Presenter BBC East Midlands Today at BBC Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom 218 followers 210 connections Join to view profile BBC About I have. A recent split in the ruling Conservatives means that Canterbury has fallen into No Overall Control going into these elections. Added to that, Spelthorne council has taken on a lot of debt to invest heavily in commercial property which might no longer be worth what was paid for it. And in 1999, she joined the BBC team replacing Lisa Dransfield onEast Midlands Today as the main weather presenter. Moreover, in 2005, Matt joined Central Independent Televisions sports team as a reporter located in Birmingham where he covered the sports news for Central Tonight alongside Sarah Jane Mee. Unlike Bassetlaw, this is not in a coalfield context: Telford is a New Town built to relieve pressure on the urban West Midlands. I spoke to many neighbours - some very upset after seeing the rescue attempts. This is probably the safest council Ive given a paragraph to here, as Bracknell is the UKs most right-wing New Town and the 2019 elections here returned a massive Conservative majority: 38 Conservative councillors against 3 Labour and 1 Lib Dem. It appears from last years result that the Conservatives chance to gain control may have passed: a repeat of 2022 would see Labour gain Three Bridges ward from the Conservatives. Sarah Teale's work email address is ***********@bbc.co.uk Moving over the border to Cambridgeshire, there are no polls this year for Huntingdonshire or South Cambridgeshire councils. Quinton will be a hard act to follow for the new Labour candidate, supermarket worker Lucy Smith; she is up against Gregor McNie (who returns from last years by-election) for the Conservatives, Andy Patmore for the Greens and Nicholas Jacob for the Lib Dems. The other two Yorkshire metropolitan boroughs Barnsley and Wakefield have large Labour majorities, and the Labour gain in last years Wakefield parliamentary by-election suggests that this isnt going to change. Last but not least in the North West is the city of Lancaster, whose council takes in Morecambe, Carnforth and a large rural hinterland. Ipswich council itself has a Labour majority which does not look under serious threat, while elsewhere in the county the Conservatives are strongly in control of West Suffolk council. The Press Association have published their usual list of estimated final declaration times (link), although anybody who has followed counts should be well aware that these times are often little more than guesswork. The party still has a large majority on Braintree council, but Uttlesford (the north-west corner of the county, including Saffron Walden and Stansted Airport) swung strongly to a residents group in 2019. If Labour can repeat the by-election gain in Etching Hill and gain the by-election seat in Cannock East, then Cannock Chase will be back in No Overall Control and Labour will be well-placed to make large gains in 2024. The associated council is closely divided between independent and Labour councillors on paper, but in practice the independent councillors are themselves divided into two factions who will bicker with just about anybody, including Mayor Preston. Labour need seven gains for a majority while the Lib Dems need three; Labour will be looking to see off the Greens in the city-centre wards of Guildhall and Micklegate, but with most of Yorks wards being quite safe both parties will need a large swing to them for a chance of overall control. A repeat of the 2022 results would see Labour gain Crookes/Crosspool and East Ecclesfield wards from the Lib Dems, but that would still leave them well short of the 43 seats needed for a council majority. Hence, Blizzard mustbe earning pretty good from her long decade's profession. The Tories have a chance of gaining Waterside and Horsfield ward in Colne from the Lib Dems, but unless they can do significantly better than 12 months ago then Pendle is going to No Overall Control. A repeat of the 2022 election would see that Tory lead increase to 2310 with Conservative gains in Bush Fair, Harlow Common and Staple Tye wards. Plymouth will be a particularly fun council to watch. Also up for election today are the two other Bedfordshire councils: the Conservatives have a large majority in Central Bedfordshire, and Labour likewise in Luton. As well as Ashfield council, the Zadroznyites have to defend a Nottinghamshire county council by-election in Kirkby South division, where they had a 5823 lead over Labour two years ago positively marginal by Ashfield standards. By-elections over the last four years have seen the Conservatives lose three more seats, and a comeback does not look on. ", In the clip, Teale can be heard explaining: "An online study showed that a shocking 95% of people said they had been harassed, jeered at, or had obscenities shouted at them in the street and a large proportion said they'd also been groped or grabbed inappropriately in public. Sarah Teale worked as a reporter/presenter at ITV before working at BBC East Midlands Today for 13 years. national opinion polling going into these elections shows a clear lead for the Labour party, so we should expect results in these local elections which are more similar to 2022 than to 2021. See also Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro Sarah Teale Furthermore, in August of 2009, it was reported that Matt would take over from veteran newscaster Alastair Stewart as a co-presenter of London Tonight along with Nina Hossain and Katie Derham. For over a decade we have been working to help transform lives in some of the poorest, hardest-to-reach parts of the world. Since 2017 the Isle of Sheppey has formed a single electoral unit electing two county councillors, and it voted Conservative at both the 2017 and 2021 county elections. The Conservatives have selected Tom Wootton, who is the outgoing Conservative councillor for the rural Wyboston ward to the north-east of the town. This has been under Conservative minority control since 2021. Independents also run the two remaining rural districts in Devon. Matt Teale has an estimated networth of between $1 million and $5 million.